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Arthur Schopenhauer

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The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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Truth is most beautiful undraped.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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Bei gleicher Umgebung lebt doch jeder in einer anderen Welt.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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This Orientalism reflected the struggle of the German Romantics in the words of Leon Poliakov to free themselves from Judeo-Christian fetters". If we could castrate all scoundrels and stick all stupid geese in a convent and give men of noble character a whole harem and procure men and indeed thorough men for all girls of intellect and understanding then a generation would soon arise which would produce a better age than that of Pericles. He quotes Horace's saying "From the brave and good are the brave descended" (Odes iv 4 29) and Shakespeare's line from Cymbeline "Cowards father cowards and base things sire base" (IV 2) to reinforce his hereditarian argument.

Influenced by Eastern thought he maintained that the "truth was recognized by the sages of India"; consequently his solutions to suffering were similar to those of Vedantic and Buddhist thinkers (i. He has influenced a long list of thinkers including Friedrich NietzscheRichard Wagner Ludwig Wittgenstein Erwin Schrödinger Albert EinsteinSigmund Freud Otto Rank Carl Jung Joseph Campbell Leo Tolstoy Thomas Mann and Jorge Luis Borges.

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